Electric boat or launch.



PATENTED MAY 3Q; 1905.

H. P GE ELECTRIC BOAT 0R LAUNCH.

APPLICATION I-ILED MAR. 26, 1904.

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'No. 791,285. PATENTED MAYSO, 1905. H. PAGE.

ELECTRIC BOAT OR LAUNCH.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.26,1904.

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No. 791,285; PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

H.PAGE.

ELECTRIC BOAT 0R LAUNCH. APIL'IOATION FILED MAR. 26, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented ma 30, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

HARLAN PAGE, OF GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

. ELECTRIC BoA'r on LAUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,285, dated May 30, 1905.

' Application filed Math 20, 1904. Serial No. 200,220.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLAN PAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Germantown, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Electric Boats or Launches, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the provision of a pleasure or other craft, boat, or launch with a water-tight compartment having a removable lid or cover, the compartment being adapted to contain current generating or storing means which, in conjunction with a motor, controls the actuation of the screw of the craft, boat, or launch for the propulsion thereof, and in such connection it relates to the general construction and arrangement of the water-tight compartment for the current generating or storing means of the motor of the craft, boat, or launch.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of an electric boat or launch constructed and arranged in substantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and characteristic features of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, inwhich Figure 1 is a longitudinal central sectional view, partly in side elevation, of a craft, boat, or launch containing or. embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the boat or launch. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively vertical sectional views on the lines 00 w and y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a top or plan view in broken section, enlarged, of the removable sectional lid or cover of the water-tight central compartment for the current generating or storing means for actuatof the said compartment, showing one manner of sealing and rendering water-tight the sections of the lid or cover of said compartment; and Fig. 8 is a side elevational view of the rack-and-pinion locking mechanism of the sectional lid or cover of the said compartment.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the boat, provided with a screw-propeller wheel a, which by-means of a shaft is connected directly with an electric motor of, of any preferred type, mounted within the body of the boat in the bottom in an offset or recess a to support the same in position therein.

a is the flooring of the boat, and a and a the seating portions thereof.

Longitudinally of the boat below the flooring is sunk a rectangular channel-way or com partment B, of metal or other material, for

.storing and maintaining in position the current generating or storing means 0 for the actuation of the electric motor 60 resting upon blocks 6, supported by the keel a and preferably secured to the ribs (0 of the boat A. The lid or cover for the compartment B is made, preferably, in oblong sections 6 and 5. Along the side walls 6 and b of the compartment Bare provided angle-irons I) and'b within which are mounted washers or gaskets 6, adapted to normally rest against the under side of the sections of the lid or cover for the compartment when closed down upon the same, as illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 6. Each of the sections of the lid or cover is provided with a pinion d, engaging a series of racklock bars d, adapted to engage bracket-eyes b and b of the compartment B to water seal the sections of the cover thereto, as illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, and thereby to prevent ingress of water into the compartment, as well as egress of fluid from the batteries 0 of the compartment B, due to rocking, teetering, or other gyrations of the boat or launch in its travel and manipulations in a stream or turbulent sea of water. The compartment B is maintained in its central position with the boat below the flooring, so that the removable lids or covers of the sunken compartment B will be in alinement with theflooring of the boat, as illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. On the'inner sides of the compartment B, ad-

jaeent to the points of union of sections of the lid or cover are provided cross-strips 71 faced on the upper portion With rubber I), so as to fit snugly up against the joint of meeting sections of the lid or cover-for example, in the manner illustrated in Fig. 7

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An electric boat or launch provided with an internal Water-tight compartment adapted to support current generating or storing means for actuating a motor and having a sectional lid or cover, each lid or cover section provided With means adapted to bring the lid or cover sections into locking engagement With each other and said compartment, and means adapted to protect from the under side the meeting sections of the lids or covers.

2. An electric boat or launch provided with an internal Water-tight longitudinal compartment adapted to support current generating or storing means tor actuating a motor and having a sectional lid or cover, each having a pinion-and-rack lock-bar adapted to be actuated to bring said sections into locking engagement with each other and said compartment.

3. An electric boat or launch provided with an internal longitudinal water-tight compartment adapted to house a current generating or storing means for a motor for actuating a propeller wheel or screw and having a removable sectional lid or cover provided with a pinion-and-raek lock-bar, and means connected with said compartment and provided with a surface adapted to seal the meeting ends of the sections of said lid or cover.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARLAN PAGE.

\Vitnesses:

J. WAL'rna Douumss, THOMAS M. Snnn. 

